What was the surprise in your kinder egg?

[Immitis]

if Kinder Surprise Eggs contain "chocolate, a toy, and a surprise" - what's the surprise? its different for everyone

[Pool of the Dead]

my favourite one as a child was golden Leonardo from TMNT statue.

Looked like a tiny Emmy but was Leo instead of a gold dude.

Oh wow, I actually found a picture of it on Google.

The internet is a wonderful thing.

[Santti]

I have 2 small boxes full of various things from kinder eggs.

[Immitis]

my favourite one as a child was golden Leonardo from TMNT statue.

Looked like a tiny Emmy but was Leo instead of a gold dude.

Oh wow, I actually found a picture of it on Google.

The internet is a wonderful thing.

its beautiful

[Deleted]

I refuse to buy Kinder Eggs any more because of the ridiculous thing they have now with like "Blue egg with BOY TOYS" and "Pink egg with GIRL TOYS" in it. Of course, GIRL TOYS are all fashion dolls and princesses and stuff, and the BOY TOYS are cars and stuff becuase y'know. Boys arn't allowed to like fashion and girls aren't allowed to like cars.

Fucking horseshit

[Puupi]

My surprise was how little chocolate the egg actually contains.

[Tripping]

Hahah that was a good video! Did not see that coming

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I refuse to buy Kinder Eggs any more because of the ridiculous thing they have now with like "Blue egg with BOY TOYS" and "Pink egg with GIRL TOYS" in it. Of course, GIRL TOYS are all fashion dolls and princesses and stuff, and the BOY TOYS are cars and stuff becuase y'know. Boys arn't allowed to like fashion and girls aren't allowed to like cars.

Fucking horseshit

As a guy who does ballet, seperating the genders is fine. What would be more horseshit is a gender neutral toy that is shit.

[Deleted]

I refuse to buy Kinder Eggs any more because of the ridiculous thing they have now with like "Blue egg with BOY TOYS" and "Pink egg with GIRL TOYS" in it. Of course, GIRL TOYS are all fashion dolls and princesses and stuff, and the BOY TOYS are cars and stuff becuase y'know. Boys arn't allowed to like fashion and girls aren't allowed to like cars.

Fucking horseshit

yeah because if you're a guy and you buy a pink egg you go to jail

no really

[Deleted]

yeah because if you're a guy and you buy a pink egg you go to jail

no really

The point is they are designed as boys and girls ones. Why not just make them cars and fashion eggs without making them so clearly loaded with gender. Yes, boys are welcome to buy the pink ones, but why did they need to be pink in the first place? There is nothing fashion-y about the colour pink, and nothing car-y about the colour blue. They could have kept the original kinder colours, as there has been cars etc in kinder eggs before and they didn't feel the need to change the colour to blue for those?

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Hahah that was a good video! Did not see that coming

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As a guy who does ballet, seperating the genders is fine. What would be more horseshit is a gender neutral toy that is shit.

Why are cars or fashion gendered in the first place? They can still have cars and fashion in them, it's just daft to separate them into genders

[Adam Jensen]

The point is they are designed as boys and girls ones. Why not just make them cars and fashion eggs without making them so clearly loaded with gender. Yes, boys are welcome to buy the pink ones, but why did they need to be pink in the first place? There is nothing fashion-y about the colour pink, and nothing car-y about the colour blue. They could have kept the original kinder colours, as there has been cars etc in kinder eggs before and they didn't feel the need to change the colour to blue for those?

So just buy both types of eggs. Problem solved.

[Immitis]

they should just have black kinder eggs and white kinder eggs and the black eggs are filled with emo things and the white ones are filled with happy things

[Deleted]

So just buy both types of eggs. Problem solved.

Not really, the problem is that kids growing up are being told what they are allowed to enjoy. Blue / Pink are pretty commonly accepted symbols for male/female when it comes to children. As the lady from Let Toys be Toys says: "“It’s baffling really to suggest pink eggs containing dolls and blue eggs containing cars don’t do anything to promote gender stereotypes because they obviously do"

It alienates girls who like cars and boys who like fashion, and teaches them that if you are a boy who likes fashion or dolls or whatever, then that makes you a girl. It's not really okay.

And yes, I'm aware that there is nothing inherently male or female about blue and pink. Yes I am aware that centuries ago we dressed boys in pink because it was considered a masculine colour. That doesn't change the fact that in our current society, the symbolism is pink = female, blue = male. Whether or not that's okay is a different debate entirely.

In the end if they didn't want to make the toys gendered they could have used any other colours in existance. Green and yellow. Hell, even if they went with blue and green or something, the fact that it isn't blue/pink means it's not really gendering the toys. But they didn't. They used blue and pink. Specifically.

[Santti]

they should just have black kinder eggs and white kinder eggs and the black eggs are filled with emo things and the white ones are filled with happy things

And everyone would be screaming "Racism!".

[Puupi]

*snip*

I can't understand why people care about whether the eggs are blue or pink and if there are cars inside blues and dolls in pinks. So what?!

If your boy likes dolls, buy him a pink one. If your girl likes cars, buy her a blue one.

These stereotypes don't hurt anyone and doesn't make anyone's life more miserable.

[Deleted]

The biggest surprise I ever had was how they could charge so much for such crappy chocolate and a shitty toy.

[The Kao]

I know I've been wondering about this slogan for a time when I was young. It was a little different in the German version from back then, it roughly translated into "something exciting, something to play with and chocolate", and at one point I settled that this is the order in which you'd want to "experience" your egg. First you're excited, shaking the egg, trying to guess what's inside by the noise it makes, then you'd open it and get something to play, and once the excitement for your new toy is gone you're going for the chocolate. Something like that. That got kinda lost in translation, and it's really not making that much sense in English.

[Frozenbeef]

I didn't know how to eat them without getting tons of cracked chocolate on the floor/ wasting a lot so i just take a huge jawfull then spit out the plastic toy container after >.<

Also is it true americans don't have them? :P

[Deleted]

I can't understand why people care about whether the eggs are blue or pink and if there are cars inside blues and dolls in pinks. So what?!

If your boy likes dolls, buy him a pink one. If your girl likes cars, buy her a blue one.

These stereotypes don't hurt anyone and doesn't make anyone's life more miserable.

They sort of do. They teach kids that if you are a girl and you like the toys in the blue egg, that makes you not a girl. It's kind of dishonest to suggest that these kinds of things don't affect kids when virtually everything in our society says blue = boy, pink = girl, and having your own toys suggest that you're not a girl because you don't like the girl things or vice versa for boys isn't really okay.

Like I say, if it was just about making two eggs with two different categories of toys and there wasn't a gendered reason behind it, they could have used ANY other two combinations of colours. They didn't.

[Kalis]

Not really, the problem is that kids growing up are being told what they are allowed to enjoy. Blue / Pink are pretty commonly accepted symbols for male/female when it comes to children. As the lady from Let Toys be Toys says: "“It’s baffling really to suggest pink eggs containing dolls and blue eggs containing cars don’t do anything to promote gender stereotypes because they obviously do"

It alienates girls who like cars and boys who like fashion, and teaches them that if you are a boy who likes fashion or dolls or whatever, then that makes you a girl. It's not really okay.

And yes, I'm aware that there is nothing inherently male or female about blue and pink. Yes I am aware that centuries ago we dressed boys in pink because it was considered a masculine colour. That doesn't change the fact that in our current society, the symbolism is pink = female, blue = male. Whether or not that's okay is a different debate entirely.

In the end if they didn't want to make the toys gendered they could have used any other colours in existance. Green and yellow. Hell, even if they went with blue and green or something, the fact that it isn't blue/pink means it's not really gendering the toys. But they didn't. They used blue and pink. Specifically.

How is a pink egg alienating boys? I have pink work shirts, so do the majority of men that work in the City.

How is a blue egg alienating girls? Plenty of girls drive blue cars. My mother had one until recently.


Get out of your Dark Ages mentality.

[Deleted]

I refuse to buy Kinder Eggs any more because of the ridiculous thing they have now with like "Blue egg with BOY TOYS" and "Pink egg with GIRL TOYS" in it.

Not seen this myself I'm certain the ones I got for my nieces the other day were the usual yellow capsules. That's kinda dumb though.

For the people jumping down Erin's throat, it's not the fact that they are "girl" toys, it's that they're packaged with gender stereotypes in mind ("girls like pink things"/"pink things are for girls"). You see the same shit in Lego; The usual Lego is in a blue box, with pictures of little boys all over it and the "girl Lego" is in a pink box and has parts that can only really make one thing (usually a hair salon, cupcake shop, or pet shop) with minifigurines that look nothing like Lego guys and every block is in pastel colours instead of the usual bold colours.